enervation
Example Sentences
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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
It’s not insane to throw yourself into a sea of anxious rumor, if it helps ward off enervation and despair.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2016
Nor, he added, was he ashamed of performing a job that causes almost daily enervation to the residents of New York.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2015
In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
They tend, he argues, to enervation, to a poor imitative, self-conscious art, to an artificial, morbid life.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
